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Building Websites with Drupal 8

Course details

Building Websites with Drupal 8 provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential skills necessary when building websites with Drupal. This course is meant to be interactive. You will work on a functioning Drupal 8 website following the steps of this manual.

The procedures are introduced step-by-step and then reinforced with practice and challenges. You'll work on a site that meets the needs of a client and reflect on your own experience to take the procedures you learn back into your own work and any new situations you encounter.

It is a full day course and intended to serve as day two of a two-day Drupal site building curriculum.

Target audience
The content of this course targets people who have had a basic introduction to Drupal 8 and are ready to become skilled at Drupal 8 site building.

Prerequisites

In order to get the most out of this course you should have prior experience in:

Completed either Introduction to Drupal 8 or What’s New in Drupal 8

Some prior experience with CMSs and building websites

HTML and CSS experience

Familiarity with both Javascript and PHP would be helpful but not necessary

Duration:

1 day

By the end of the training you will be able to:

Get data into your database with fielded entities

Create lists of content from the database and manage display on your site

Understand all fundamental facets of building a Drupal 8 website including how custom modules and themes are built

Assemble a website out of individual components

What is provided:

Please bring your own laptop computer.

Looking for team training in Drupal?

Training is available for either public sessions or private classroom settings. Public courses range from 1 to 5 days in length; private training packages can be customized to suit your needs.

Private on-site training for your team ensures learners get access to the expertise they need for case-specific questions.